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Nam Sense - Surviving Vietnam with 101st Airborne Division (Paperback)
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Nam Sense - Surviving Vietnam with 101st Airborne Division (Paperback)
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List price R471
Loot Price R374
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Nam Sense is the memoir of a combat squad leader in the 101st
Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was drafted by the army in 1969 at
the age of nineteen, promoted to sergeant 'without ever setting
foot in a combat zone', and sent to Vietnam. He was flown north to
Camp Evans, a mixed-unit outpost near Phong Dien, only a few miles
from Laos. Wiknik was then thrown straight into the action: he was
the first man in his unit to reach the top of Hamburger Hill during
one of the last offensives launched by US forces, and later
discovered a weapons cache that prevented a sneak attack on his
advance fire support base. Between the sporadic episodes of combat
he mingled with the locals and defrauded an unwitting US supplier
to provide his platoon with a year of good food. This book offers a
perfect blend of candour and humour - and it spares nothing and no
one in its attempt to convey what really happened during this
unpopular war. Nam Sense is not about heroism, mental breakdowns
and haunting flashbacks: the GIs Wiknik lived and fought with
during his year-long tour were there to do their duty, support
their comrades and get home alive. 'The soldiers I knew', explains
the author, 'demonstrated courage, principle, kindness, and
friendship - all the elements found in other wars Americans have
proudly fought in.' About the Author ARTHUR WIKNIK was drafted into
the U.S. Army in 1968, selected to be trained as an
Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) and went to war in Vietnam.
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